1.Geraldine McEwan played Fay in the 1965 debut production of Loot. One night, McEwan became hysterical on stage. What happened next?

Kenneth Williams, playing Inspector Truscott, slapped her sharply and they carried on

Orton stepped in and played the role himself

McEwan was taken home and sedated

2.In 1962, Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell were sentenced to six months in prison for which crime?

Lewd behaviour in public toilets

Defacing library books

Treason

3.Orton wrote a screenplay for the Beatles but it was rejected by the band. What was it called?

Up Against It

Yellow Submarine

What the Beatles Saw

4.The same Beatles screenplay was adapted for an off-Broadway show in 1989. Who composed the songs?

Todd Rundgren

Aretha Franklin

Phil Spector

5.Gary Oldman played Joe Orton in the 1987 biopic Prick Up Your Ears. Who played Kenneth Halliwell?

Bill Nighy

Alfred Molina

Fiona Shaw

6.Which of these Orton plays has Alec Baldwin not starred in?

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Loot

The Good and the Faithful Servant

7.Orton's life and death have inspired a number of plays. Which of them prompted a New York critic to note: "It makes a farce of Orton's life in all the least compelling ways"?

Cock-ups

Nasty Little Secrets

Diary of a Somebody

8.A blue plaque was placed in honour of Joe Orton at which site on London's Holloway Road?

Police station

Public toilet

Library

9.What did Orton steal from his dead mother to use as a prop for Entertaining Mr Sloane?

Her dentures

Her wig

Her walking cane

10.The Daily Telegraph published a letter regarding Entertaining Mr Sloane, in which the writer complained: "I myself was nauseated by this endless parade of mental and physical perversion." The writer was Orton himself, but what name did he give his elderly, outraged alter-ego?